Two meaningful use dates now loom large. The first is December 15, when the 60-day comment period on the stage 3 final rule expires. While some industry observers consider the comment period to pertain just to stage 3, that isn't precisely true. Because ONC and CMS issued a single final rule covering both stage 3 and its amendments to stage 2 in the years 2015, 2016, and 2017, the public has the right to comment on anything in the final rule, says Liz Johnson, CIO of acute care hospitals and applied clinical informatics at Tenet Healthcare, the for-profit hospital operator headquartered in Dallas.
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